From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V5 #189 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, July 8 2001 Volume 05 : Number 189 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OT: GBS-Free shows in NJ [trace@fruhead.com (Trace)] different fruvous album styles... (was Re: Late to the Dave discussions) [Ofer Inbar wrote: >Trace wrote: > >> Oh, and HI! to everyone I haven't talked to in about, um, a year :-) > >heh. And she's still keeping up her "I'll post at least once a year" >resolution, too. Good job, girlfriend! That would be pretty much the only resolution I've ever kept ;-) And look! I'm posting twice this year. Somebody stop me, I'm out of control! >It amuses me that with a *.sig* file Trace managed to meet the requirements of >the spam filter, even though she likely doesn't know of its existence. :D .sig files are very useful aren't they? - -- Trace trace at fruhead dot com "They're like Robin Williams singing, times 4." -Anonymous comment about Fruvous overheard in the 8th & Market subway station in Philadelphia following the 1998 Singer/Songwriter Festival. "I'm not clever enough to be unintelligible." - -Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:47:18 -0400 From: Ofer Inbar Subject: different fruvous album styles... (was Re: Late to the Dave discussions) More than a month ago, Marty Cosgrove wrote: > Chad Maloney wrote in message news:<3B0E7DFC.C17C1E5A@Fruvous.com>... > > I came into this whole thing between Wood and Moon, but I bought Bargainville > > and listened to it constantly. I knew Wood and "b" existed, but couldn't > > buy them. > > Ah yes, the bad old days before Borders carried everything. Thank > goodness MF frequented Ohio! > > > When I started, I loved Bargainville, but after 5 months of constant > > listening, the gimmick crap got really old to me. > > Yikes! The "gimmick crap"? I don't know how to reply to that. That's > some of my favorite stuff. > > > Now, Thornhill is my favorite Fruvous album with Wood in second. > > I've never been able to get into Thornhill, and believe me, I've > tried. I just don't like it. Yes, it's part of the evolution of Moxy > Fruvous that we all excused them for when "Wood" came out, but to my > ears, there's something wrong with "Thornhill." I've never been able > to put my finger on it. I'd like to totally crack apart the organization of fruvous albums and fruhead tastes that seems to have been implicit in this thread, that supposed divide between the silly gimmicky lively stuff and the slow ballady folky stuff, that links Wood to Thornhill. "We all excused them" for Wood, goes with that too. My first time hearing moxy fruvous was when a fruhead played Bargainville me in the car. We listened to the whole album, but I wasn't hooked. I thought it was cute, and probably good, but I didn't feel like striking out to search for this band, or buy the album. Then moxy fruvous played Falcon Ridge '96, and I saw them live. That's when I got hooked. I bought a copy of Bargainville, but I listened to it maybe once or twice and then put it aside. I started going to lots of live shows, and listening mainly to tapes of live shows. To this day, I've probably listened to my copy of Bargainville no more than 5 or 6 times. Next, I got Wood, and I loved it! I got B, and it was cute and funny and I was glad to have it for mix tape material, but didn't listen to it much besides that. Moon came out, I got that, and I liked it a lot and listened to it from time to time, but Wood remained my favorite. That, and the tapes of live shows, and the live shows themselves. Now we have Thornhill, and C, and still Wood and Moon are the only moxy fruvous released CDs that I listen to. I still love the tapes of live shows, and I've listened to my recording of their 1996 WBRS appearance more often that I've listened to all of their albums combined. The order I like the fruvous albums in is probably: Wood, Moon, B, C, Bargainville, Thornhill On the other hand, it doesn't sadden me at all that there have been so few shows without Johnny Saucep'n, as Chad said. What I mourn is that there have been so few live shows with Gulf War Song in them. The live tape I listen to most is from the 1996 tour and hence is filled with loads of Bargainville songs, and I love that. So there, now try to fit me into the categorizations of fruvous music you were making :-) -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@aaaaa.org cos@polyamory.org -- WBRS Waltham 100.1 FM -- info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ "Long live folk music, and this doomed festival!" -- moxy fruvous ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V5 #189 ********************************************